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Paid Crowd Search to Increase Ranking

by singhavn
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Lots of talks going on these days regarding the use of managed crowd search to inflate rankings. Crowd search means you pay real people to search google for your keywords for which you are ranking may be in 2nd,3rd or 4th page etc and then visit your site and spend time making it look natural to google.

Seo guru claim that one of the key factor in google algo is the ctr (click through rate). How many people are visiting a particular site from serps. If you are getting higher ctr than the site above you then google may place you above.

Have you guys tried this.
#crowd #increase #paid #ranking #search
  • Profile picture of the author Koolsteve
    I have personally seen improvement in ranking of pages through increased CTR but this was via visitors sent from my Twitter accounts. On that basis there must be a similarity and proof of algo.
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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Originally Posted by singhavn View Post

    Lots of talks going on these days regarding the use of managed crowd search to inflate rankings. Crowd search means you pay real people to search google for your keywords for which you are ranking may be in 2nd,3rd or 4th page etc and then visit your site and spend time making it look natural to google.
    As far as I know this is a manipulation method that at least used to work. I know some guys who did this not too long ago, but according to them some changes made this much less efficient.

    Haven't tried it myself, and I too would be interested to hear what other users think. Of course manipulation like this is strictly against Google's TOS, and Warrior Forum might not be the best place to have black hat discussions...

    Originally Posted by Koolsteve

    I have personally seen improvement in ranking of pages through increased CTR but this was via visitors sent from my Twitter accounts. On that basis there must be a similarity and proof of algo.
    If your visitors don't come from search Google can't track them. If you're getting good traction on Twitter there's probably correlation between that and your increased rankings.
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    • Profile picture of the author tritrain
      They can track them via Google Analytics, which I'm sure factors into ranking, even if they claim it does not.
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  • Profile picture of the author SDBradfo
    Sounds like a lot of effort considering that what you're talking about is a tiny fraction of Google's ranking algorithm.
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  • Profile picture of the author alex fernandes
    Originally Posted by singhavn View Post

    Lots of talks going on these days regarding the use of managed crowd search to inflate rankings. Crowd search means you pay real people to search google for your keywords for which you are ranking may be in 2nd,3rd or 4th page etc and then visit your site and spend time making it look natural to google.

    Seo guru claim that one of the key factor in google algo is the ctr (click through rate). How many people are visiting a particular site from serps. If you are getting higher ctr than the site above you then google may place you above.

    Have you guys tried this.
    Don't you think that this process is time consuming? How will you benefit from this process? You will get only visitors and maybe some improvement in keyword rankings but no conversions.
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    • Profile picture of the author singhavn
      Originally Posted by alex fernandes View Post

      Don't you think that this process is time consuming? How will you benefit from this process? You will get only visitors and maybe some improvement in keyword rankings but no conversions.
      Improvements in keywords ranking - That is what we are talking about.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by alex fernandes View Post

      Don't you think that this process is time consuming? How will you benefit from this process?
      Of course it's time consuming, and that's why something like this is outsourced to 3rd world countries. The theory was that Google tracks those clicks from "real users", and adjusts the rankings. That's a benefit, isn't it?

      Please note that I'm not saying that this "method" does anything.
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    • Profile picture of the author singhavn
      Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

      Of course it's time consuming, and that's why something like this is outsourced to 3rd world countries. The theory was that Google tracks those clicks from "real users", and adjusts the rankings. That's a benefit, isn't it?

      Please note that I'm not saying that this "method" does anything.
      What do you mean by 3rd world countries. I though it's just 1 world.

      Originally Posted by SEOBimbo View Post

      hi,

      I tested 2 services over a month and there are just a minimal to no changes....
      So I think it is not worth the money....
      Thanks for reporting your test with this method.
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      • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
        Originally Posted by singhavn View Post

        What do you mean by 3rd world countries. I though it's just 1 world.
        Let me Google that for you.

        Originally Posted by Jeff Caceres

        This is another innovative and new way to boost the rankings of your website. I am also exploring on how paid Crowd Search really works, because I am open to new ideas in terms of ranking my own website and the websites of my SEO clients as well. It is great that new things comes around for a purpose, which is to help us gain more than what we have right now.
        You make it sound like some grand discovery that everyone should use. It's not that new, and this kind of direct manipulation is certainly "black hat". It's not suitable of every client in my opinion.

        Originally Posted by tritrain View Post

        They can track them via Google Analytics, which I'm sure factors into ranking, even if they claim it does not.
        Technically they could, but they don't use the data that way. But this thing has nothing to do with Analytics.
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  • Profile picture of the author jerrodrobker
    I think this method will work on improvement of a Website ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeff Willy
    This is another innovative and new way to boost the rankings of your website. I am also exploring on how paid Crowd Search really works, because I am open to new ideas in terms of ranking my own website and the websites of my SEO clients as well. It is great that new things comes around for a purpose, which is to help us gain more than what we have right now.
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